reflection on The Hunger Games

Right! Forgot again about linking to other reviews.

books i done read (the one that made me bump the book up my library list)
and
Maw Books (the one that got it on my list in the first place)

Thank you!

Also, reading my post again, I sounded too harsh. I LOVE weird character names, though I still admit it was jarring. And seriously, Suzanne Collins has talent. EVEN THOUGH she didn't fool me with her he-betrayed-me!-no-he-didn't! shenanigans, I really, REALLY enjoyed this book.

Greg. I sound like I'm trying to copy the blogging style of Raych at books i done read. (Poorly.) Sorry.

Review: sickness

UGH. After a just delightful FIVE WEEKS of my cold, it seems to be receding. It started with a week of sore throat, then three and a half weeks of dreadful coughing with other symptoms sprinkled in as they saw fit. For the past few days it slowed to a runny nose, and I'm getting hopeful that it's about done.

Five cappertillers.

Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

I finally gave in and read this popular book, and I'm glad I did. Why?

Firstly, THINGS I DID NOT LIKE.
I'm not a fan of books written in the present tense (in general). Now, this was better than most, and maybe it wouldn't have been better in past tense. But it put me off. ALSO at the beginning it seemed a little pretentious, as in "Oh, I'm such an exciting book!" This calmed down really quickly, though. ALSO really, 'muttations'? ARE YOU FOR SERIOUS, SUZANNE COLLINS? I groaned EVERY SINGLE TIME I read that word. It was horrible and ruined the drama. I'm sorry, but that was seriously the worst part of the entire book. ALSO the names were strange enough it took time to get used to them. The PC (Primary Character*) was named Katniss, which makes be go WHAT, and two of the MCs (Male Characters*) were named Gale and Peeta, which both sound like female names to me. Gale as in Gayle or Gail, and Peeta as in… well, names that end in A in European languages tend to be female.

The plot was also a bit predictable. Not overly so, but there weren't many things that surprised me. (This is where I move into THINGS I DID LIKE.) HOWEVER… I liked it anyway. This is rare. I think Suzanne Collins is an excellent writer to have pulled this off, and I curtsy to her. Curtsying emoticon, I guess.

I read this in one day, so it's definitely not a dragging book. The plot moves along quite quickly, and it's very exciting. Very hard to put down. I approve. As soon as I finished it I wanted to read the sequel.

Oh, there's another thing. All through the book I was thinking about how I couldn't imagine it having a sequel. It's just a one-book plot. (Like Chasing Vermeer, if you've ever read that. The sequel didn't have NEARLY the same spirit as the first. It was very sad.) UNLESS—I thought—it was like the Star Wars trilogy** where it was basically just one movie split into three parts, as in the second and third aren't additions but rather continuations. If you know what I mean. Anyway, that's how it was, and I really can't imagine NOT reading the second book if you liked the first one at all. It would be like not finishing… well, any book at all.

Recommended!

Eight and three quarter cappertillers.

*The code I learned was actually
M = Male
F = Female
M = Main
C = Character
and all that, so you could have MCs or MCs and FCs, or MMCs and MFCs and it was just confusing. I'm trying to change it to
M = Male
F = Female
P = Primary
S = Secondary
T = Tertiary
C = Character
and all that.

**I'm just linktastic today, aren't I?